Minh “Gooseman” Le

Creator of Counter-Strike

In 1999 Minh “Gooseman” Le invented the game Counter-Strike. After his work on Counter-Strike he spent a few years at Valve where he worked on various titles such as Day of Defeat Source and CS:Source. He left Valve in 2006 and developed a new First Person multiplayer game called Tactical Intervention. Working with a small team of four developers they were able to release a fun free2play FPS game that provided unique and innovative new game mechanics that weren’t found in other FPS games.

In 2012, Minh joined Facepunch Studios to work on a massively successful openworld title called Rust. In 2018, he joined Pearl Abyss Studios to work on an unannounced title.